We are very lucky to not only have a fourth year pharmacy student, Kelly Banker, helping us in July, but also a second year pharmacy student, Andy Luo. Andy is an actual employee at Plain City Druggist who gets paid for his work. Poor Kelly, as part of the pharmacy program, actually has to pay the university to work for us as part of her education!

Andy, we hope, will be with us for the next two years. He is stepping in as our second year student now that Liz has progressed to be a third year student and Jon has moved on to do his fourth year rotations. Joe’s plan is to try to always have second and third year pharmacy students rotating through the drugstore with new students coming on board as our older students become pharmacists. We hope to have some of those new pharmacists filling in and working for us, too!

Andy gradated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2010 having majored in chemical biology–a good stepping stone for a degree in pharmacy. Andy chose to go on to pharmacy school because of his interest in chemistry and his passion for helping people. Because he had never worked in a pharmacy before, Andy wanted to come to Plain City Druggist to learn how a community pharmacy operates.

When he isn’t busy studying or working at the pharmacy counter, Andy enjoys rock climbing, badminton, building computers, and movies.

We hope you’ll stop in and make Andy feel very welcome! Show him that Ohio hospitality!